Geoffrey James: Running Fence - Softcover

Essays by Sebastian Rotella and Dot Tuer. With a foreword by Elizabeth Armstrong, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Running Fence is a photographic document by Toronto artist Geoffrey James, focusing on the first 14 miles of the border fence that separates the United States and Mexico, beginning at the Pacific Ocean and ending at the Otay Mountains. With its ironic reference to the famous project by Romanian-born artist Christos, James's Running Fenceexplores the iconography of the border, at a time when the world hastens towards greater globalization and a new century. Curated by Karen Love. Essays by Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times bureau chief for South America; Dot Tuer, a Toronto writer, cultural historian, and art critic who has written extensively on contemporary art & new media; and a foreword by Elizabeth Armstrong, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Exhbition dates: May 1 - June 8, 1998 Touring Exhibition Designer: File Bitapart. Printer: Delta Printing, Printed and Bound in Canada.